I've had the theory that our identity begins as an extension of the representation of space.
We are simply the node at the center in a coordinate system, connected to the same emotions, rewards, and memories that every other node in the graph.
We are simply the node at the center in a coordinate system, connected to the same emotions, rewards, and memories that every other node in the graph.
i.e. Our brain models causal relationships, sees the correlation between it's own pre-action thoughts and the following action, and therefore models itself as an actor/causal agent responsible for these thoughts and actions.
> its own pre-action thoughts and the following action
Can also be a sort of spatial processing